Remember that one of you lucky winners has been selected to be our next Guest Designer so keep an eye on your emails to see if you have been contacted!

Very well done ladies! These are all stunning! Please help yourself to your badge from the side bar and hopefully you'll play along again when we come back on 15th January 2016!
We would love to have you :)

Don't forget to share your crafty makes with us over on our Facebook Group too.

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Welcome to our new challenge here at All Dressed Up and thank you very much to everyone who played along last time. Check back soon to see if you are the lucky winner :)

The Design Team are taking a short break over the Festive Season so this will be the final Challenge of 2015.

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We have a wee surprise for you all on 16th December so do pop back - it is hush hush and very exciting - there might be something nice for you just in time for Christmas; or perhaps we are having another party or are we having a competition?

Come back and see on 16th December!!

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We will be back tho on 15th January with a new Blog Challenge so take this opportunity

to wish you all

A Very Merry Christmas and

a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2016!

We have a wee announcement to make in that it gives us great pleasure in telling you all that our Lucy has recently won 3rd place in National Cardmaker of the Year 2015!!Please join us all in sending her huge congratulations! She is such a talented cardmaker considering her personal situation (visit her fabulous blog to see more of her fantastic work)!

As Always our theme for our Blog Challenge isAnything Goes (BUT YOU MUST USE AN ALL DRESSED UP IMAGE)

Not got any? There are some gorgeous freebies here - Now what can be easier than that?***

You could win your personal choice of 3 All Dressed Up digi images; be selected as one of the Top 3 or be chosen as guest Designer for our next Challenge.

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We do hope you'll find the time to play along and don't forget there will be a new release on the 7th of the month so remember to check out theEtsy Store. ***

We also now have a challenge over on our Facebook page starting on the 1st of each month running throughout the complete month with a Theme - this month is Stars/Snowflakes so do pop along and join in there too. Why not play along for the chance to win even more gorgeous All Dressed Up images !

And these are the smaller sets. All the design papers have been cut so the backing sheets are half a centimetre larger than the one to be placed on top. You can see what I mean better in my first lot of layering in the 7th photo.

The strange looking circular object is a distressing tool from Tim Holtz and can be bought from most good craft places.

And here I'll give you a tale. I went to a local shop and saw distressed cards and thought they looked amazing. When I asked about how they were done I was told it's a skill but no other details were disclosed. Well I'm here to tell you it doesn't have to be a "skill" - you can get a tool which will do it for you :D

See this is what it does - but be warned if you've not used this tool before - it's extremely messy.

Here I've piled up all my layers so you can see what they look like before they're mounted onto the card.

This is my first lot of layers. The first design paper is mounted directly onto card and they yo've got the first double layer. You can see the effect that cutting the top layer half a centimetre smaller than the underlying layer has better now.

I've then mounted two more layers at angles and over the top of each other.

This is a strip of design paper cut with a Martha Stewart punch to create a fancy border. I've also put this at an angle to the rest of the layers.

On top of this I've added some straight lace. I tried to use some shaped lace but it took away the effect of the punched border.

This is a close up of the starts I made. The backing is grunge board from Tim Holtz. I've used gesso, pink acrylic paint, lot of loose DecoArt glitter and some DecoArt crackle paste. You can see the effect the crackle paste has better on the larger star. You can also bring that effect out more by adding some darker ink and rubbing it over the top of the paste when its dry.

So here you have the final card. I added the larger star. Then I put some sticky dots onto the back of the double image layer to raise it up to the same level as the star and the lace panel. Onto this I added the smaller star and rhine stone (to cover the glue dot up shhh...)

Thursday, 26 November 2015

We know how much you love our images so we are having a very short 24hr giveaway on our Facebook Page!!

Lucy put it up yesterday (Wednesday) and this is my first chance to get it up here so you need to be SUPER FAST TO GET YOUR COMMENT IN and select which image will be the freebie!

Pop along here and comment and you will be able to grab the winning freebie once the voting is complete and remember this will only be a freebie for 24hrs (after which it will go back in store at the normal price! ! How generous is that of Wendy?

We also now have a challenge over on our Facebook page starting today with a brand new design. Theme for the first round will be Anything Goes! Why not play along for the chance to win even more gorgeous All Dressed Up images